Scott Hamilton Quotes

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

Being the headliner is only more pressure if you're not very good.

It's hard if you don't quite feel on your game to go out and put scores on the board.

I hope I can live up to the faith that has been put in me to do a good job.

It's the weight of expectation that's the hardest to deal with, really, from my point of view.

When I play in a tournament, sometimes I'm feeling tired and don't want to play in the tournament. I don't want to lose.

I hated painting, and I quit right after high school because I was continually told how terrific I was... it made me feel shaky.

Everybody has some part of their game that is easily influenced to choke.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

When I'm playing timid and afraid to make a mistake, then I'm not going to play well.

Sometimes when you go into the match, you want it so badly. I think sometimes is tricky. It makes you a little bit, like, tense and nervous.

Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

I feel like it's harder because everyone knows I'm the three-time world champion - it's almost like people are waiting for something bad to happen.

I feel the pressure of getting something right.

I think pressure exists in a situation only when you are unsure of your talent and people are expecting a lot from you due to your lineage.

I wanted to prove myself on the pitch, but I didn't have many chances, so it put a lot more pressure on every single game that I played. I found myself in situations where I was so keen to show my qualities, but many times it worked against me and I was punished for being too eager.

I had good and bad seasons for Essex. I was a real form player: if I got on a run, I was happy and confident, but if I had a bad trot, I was far too analytical of my game, worried about it too much and my form got worse.

It's impossible, when one team and one player is afraid of something that might happen in a match, they will not play well, they will not have 100 per cent confidence.

If I were Goldberg or Brock Lesnar, I wouldn't want to have to go on after me and Randy. From their standpoint, I wouldn't want to be them and have to go on after us.

There is nothing called pressure. I understand that there is expectation, but if there is any pressure, I don't feel it.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

I've always had this crazy thought that I have to win something; otherwise, my career's a complete failure. It's ridiculous. Will a trophy change me as a person? No. Will it make me a better player? No. So what the hell am I worried about?

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

It is just down to confidence. When I haven't got any, I hate playing the game.